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Anyway chaps, after 4 hours and 34 fenced courts i could find within the radius of 5 miles of cambridge centre I found nothing better than what we already have.
I am sad to tell this, but every court I went to either had grass/rubber surface or the fence was damaged and not connected properly to the court ground like this:
or even worse in nice courts like these:
There were poles sticking out for tennis nets like this:
I think about 70 or 80% of the courts were tennis courts with irremovable net poles - and you can't play with those things in the way.
Ive seen some seriously good ones, but they all have like poles and shit sticking out right in the middle of the court. Ive had to jump a few fences and invade private property to get to some (ripped knees and broozed hands) yet still i found nothing better than what we currently play on.
The only real better court minus the fact the it doesnt have lights is that Arbury community centre one:
But this court is always quite busy and there are even more kids there on a sunday wanting to play football, and if not kids then annoying chavs claiming it as their and getting in the fucking way. So I think this court maybe a no no.
However, i actually did find ONE good court. The surface is great, the size is great, it has 4 floodlights and little goal areas too. HERE:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=52.224471,0.150311&sll=52.224489,0.150577&sspn=0.001009,0.002843&ie=UTF8&ll=52.224474,0.150405&spn=0.001009,0.002843&t=h&z=19
But to get to it I had to climb over a fence (not a great idea to do that weekly), there is cctv there to watch you too. Its located in some kind of primary school, so I assume its not being used on weekends. I presume we can arrange some sort of hiring and floodlighting if matters come to worst. But as far as using a free court I think what we're using at the moment is the best choice. Here is the Chesterton Primary School's little playground.
So just to conclude my boring speech, the two courts we have to choose from are the one we use now on Newmarket Road and THIS one in Chesterton, everything else in Cambridge is worse.